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of Forestry at the University of Edinburgh, and a sum of 

 ;;^584, 3s. lod. has since been raised by the Society and handed 

 over to the University. Aided by an annual subsidy from the 

 Board of Agriculture, which the Society was mainly instrumental 

 in obtaining, a Course of Lectures at the University has been 

 delivered without interruption since 1889. It is recognised, how- 

 ever, that a School of Forestry is incomplete without a practical 

 training-ground attached to it, which would be available, not only 

 for purposes of instruction but also as a Station for Research and 

 Experiment, and as a Model Forest, by which Landowners and 

 Foresters throughout the country might benefit. The Society 

 has accordingly drawn up a Scheme for the Establishment of a 

 State Model Forest for Scotland which might serve the above- 

 named objects. Copies of this Scheme were laid before the recent 

 Departmental Committee on British Forestry ; and in their Report, 

 which has now been issued, they have recommended the estab- 

 lishment of a Demonstration Area and the provision of other 

 educational facilities in Scotland. 



Meantime Mr Munro Ferguson, M.P., for a part of whose 

 woods at Raith a Working Plan has been prepared, and is now in 

 operation, has very kindly agreed to allow Students to visit them. 



Excursions. 



During the past twenty-five years, well-organised Excursions, 

 numerously attended by Members of the Society, have been made 

 annually to various parts of Scotland, England, and Ireland. In 

 1895, a Tour extending over twelve days was made through the 

 Forests of Northern Germany, and last summer a Tour extending 

 over seventeen days was made in Sweden. These Excursions 

 enable Members whose occupations necessarily confine them chiefly 

 to a single locality to study the conditions and methods prevailing 

 elsewhere ; and the Council propose to extend the Tours during 

 the next few years to Norway, France, and Southern Germany. 

 They venture to express the hope that Landowners may be induced 

 to afford facilities to their Foresters for participation in these Tours, 

 the instructive nature of which renders them well worth the 

 moderate ex])enditure of time and money that they involve. 



Exhibitions. 



A Forestry Exhibition is annually organised in connection with 

 the Highland and Agricultural Society's Show, in which are exhibited 

 specimens illustrating the rate of growth of trees, different kinds of 

 wood, pitwood and railway timber, insect pests and samples of the 

 damage done by them, tools and implements, manufactured articles 

 peculiar to the district where the Exhibition is held, and other 

 objects of interest relating to Forestry. Prizes and Medals are also 

 offered for Special Exhibits. 



